Photo credit: Boyd A. Loving
Rear end collision on Linwood Avenue sends one to HUMC
July 28th ,2014
Boyd A. Loving
6:59 PM
A front seat passenger of a black Toyota Camry was transported by ambulance to Hackensack University Medical Center after being injured in a rear end crash on Linwood Avenue, Ridgewood just before 6 PM on Monday, 07/28. The driver of the other vehicle involved, a black Cadillac, complained of chest pains but refused medical assistance. Both vehicles were able to be driven from the scene. Ridgewood PD, FD, and EMS all responded. Injuries to the victim were reported to be non-life threatening.
Photo credit: Boyd A. Loving
Isn’t it a little odd that this accident happened a few hundred yards from the ER entrance of Valley Hospital and yet they took the patient to HUMC?
#deathvalley
Isn’t it a little odd that this accident happened a few hundred yards from the ER entrance of Valley Hospital and yet they took the patient to HUMC?
#deathvalley
HUMC!! you are kidding! Valley down the street! This was a trauma case???
Puleese!!!
You couldn’t take them to Valley? 1/2 block away ?????
The patient can request the hospital.
Why do these same comments appear every single time there’s a Ridgewood ambulance story? Look, I know that it presents an opportunity to bash Valley. That, I understand. But as far as where accident victims get transported to, there’s a policy in place with respect to trauma patients, and that’s HUMC. Now if you were to take a look at Valley’s patients, you will see that they are made up of people from miles around, and they come to Valley for things that Valley specializes in.
Valley is not a designated trauma center.
HUMC is fully stocked with internal and external fixation devices and has trauma specialists on site 24 / 7.
Valley does not.